Three poems

The three poems have a lot more in common than I originally thought they would. They are both constantly mentioning nature and the human mind. This is an example of showing romanticism because they are showing passion for nature. When reading through these mentions, as the reader, I see the many visuals the author created for me. Many of the powerful words show that the author took time to choose the words wisely. Each of the pieces mention power and what they think has the power. Nature, or God? This is showing the reader that it's okay to have your own idea on your own things without being wrong. Each poem also talks about the differences between good and bad and the authors even embed their own experiences with good and bad times. Percy Shelley believes that all of the power is in nature, and some people called him atheist because of this. He believes that life is beautiful, while death is also beautiful. However, death is just a light sleep, and it's not a very big deal because everyone ends up "sleeping" in the long run. On the other hand, Samuel Taylor Colderidge believes that God has the power of everyone and God is also the teacher of everyone. However, he also intertwines nature into it as well. William Wordsworth states that no human can even touch upon the beauty of nature. He talks more about what happened throughout his life, and it is more relatable to human life, because it is based upon more reality than anything else. 

Mont Blanc comparisons

Mary Shelley takes an interesting approach when describing Mont Blanc, while Percy Shelley adds a little bit more of a negative effect on his explanation. Mary describes the mountain as beautiful and majestic. She even goes into detail saying that the mountain can "cure ones soul". According to her, Mont Blanc cured Frankenstein's soul shortly after the death of his loved ones. One thing that I also noticed when comparing the two views was that Mary took more of an optimistic view, whereas Percy took more into consideration, making it almost a pessimistic view. Mary liked to talk about how Frankenstein loved the mountains and how they were a wonderful sight, and her mood was just overall uplifting. On the other hand, Percy Shelley talks about the bigger aspects of life. He talks about heaven and hell. On the bright side, though, he makes the reader think about life, which is always a positive thing. Both authors like to enable pictures in the reader's head, and they use some pretty strong vocab. The authors are definitely writing romantically because of their vocabulary and imagery. 

Monster Creation

Passion is a key element to romanticism. Victor shows passion for his creation because he doesn't keep in touch with any of his friends or family. He created a monster and his creation caused him to be completely isolated from the rest of society. However, after Victor's creation, he becomes surprised. So surprised that it turns into horror. He is mortified by what he created and he is no longer passionate for his creation. His passion has now turned into hatred instead. Victor is upset because all of those months of hard work have not actually paid off. He is greatly disappointed in himself.

William Blake

William Blake is showing comparing two things: innocence and experience. He paired both of these topics together because his main focus in all of the poems is children. If you think about it, children start out as completely innocent. And as children are growing, they become more experienced, which in turn, makes this innocence eventually fade. He explains in his poems, that they don't have a lot of choices to make when it comes to decisions because they're still young. However, a choice they can and usually do make, is to be happy when things are going wrong. Blake uses lots of recurring things that can symbolize happiness, such as the sun. Face it, everyone is always happier when the sun's shining. Blake gets the point across that you should not take life for granted. You were brought here for a reason, and just because of that, you should choose to be happy. Just when the going gets tough, hold on, because it will get better. Blake says that when one gains experience of the world, and is introduced to bad things, it is easier for the happiness to suddenly slip away. This is why he uses children, because they are innocent and happy all of the time.